AT&T and HTC has team up again to produce another version of HTC Diamond 2 that exclusively for US market-The HTC Pure. However, from the appearance of Pure sightly different than Diamond 2 and also Pure has also upgraded to the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 operating platform. Other specs of Pure are still remain same as Diamond 2 but since has a newer OS, it’s unfair to say that Pure fully identical with Diamond. The are brother but not twin.
Design
The HTC Pure is a touchscreen smartphone, quite similar with it brother Euro Touch Diamond 2. But Pure is thinner and shorter and the design is simple and clean. The display is a WVGA (400×800) resistive touch screen. The screen is very nice, colors are vibrant and had a good sun legibility. Touch navigation is also very responsive but instead of haptic feedback features, Pure come with vibrates to confirm touches and taps. This is not we like, because it hardly giving us the feel of ‘press’. But you can still can turn off the vibration if you are like us. On the bottom of the screen, there is zoom slider area which allow you to zoom in using Opera, Photo Album, or Google Maps. Below the screen, you will see four typical hardware buttons: call send, Start menu, back, and call end. The Pure measures 117.5 x 53.1 x 13.7 mm of dimension, which is a average size of most touchscreen phone. It does feels comfortable to hold and compact, easily slips into a bag or pants pocket.
User Interface
As many WinMo smartphone does, HTC pure also overlapped the original Window Mobile 6.5 interface with it own HTC’s TouchFlo 3D interface. However, you can switch it back to the original interface if you want. Like usually there a prominent clock on the home screen and an arrangement of elegant, sliding home screen panels. Also there is a bar of shortcuts that runs along the bottom of the screen. These shortcuts are to access applications such as the Internet browser, e-mail, and the music player. overall, TouchFlo UI is nice, but it seems requires too much of the system resources and causes the phone to be slow to respond. Turn it back on the WinMo original OS is better if you open many application in once.
Camera
HTC spot a 5MP camera with autofocus but no flash. It can take excellent pictures in both indoor and outdoor, as long as the place isn’t to dark. You have a wide range of camera settings and tools, including white balance and brightness controls, ISO settings, flicker adjustment, and various resolution and image-quality options. You can also record video by the camera, but the video quality is not good as the pictures.
GPS
The HTC Pure is come with a GPS receiver and also loaded with AT&T Navigator. However, you can use the GPS with third-party apps such as Google Maps. Since Google is going to upgrade their Google Maps application, it is good to have a try on their navigation system.
Others
Other features in this Pure is nothing notable. It got stereo FM radio with RDS, GPS with , Pocket Office that can read Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF files, mp3 Player and etc…all this is nothing special since this handset is categorized in smartphone category.
Final Words
To be honest, HTC Pure fail to surprise us. It’s in our expectation, and some even disappoint us like slow response, doesn’t come with headphones and no 3.5mm headphone jack. We doesn’t mean it is a lame device. It still capable to be a nice smartphone but compare with other WinMo 6.5 phone, this one let us down more.
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